These are some of the most striking images of the year from RFE/RL's photographers.
The Best Of 2019 From RFE/RL's Photographers
- By Kateryna Oliynyk and
- Lucie Steinzova
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Municipal deputy Aleksandra Parushina is detained after she was hit on the head by police in Moscow on July 27. Russian police detained more than 1,300 people in a day of protests against alleged irregularities in the run-up to local elections. (Anton Sergienko, RFE/RL) See more images from Moscow protests in Moscow Opposition Rally Turns Violent As Police Detain Protesters.
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Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov hugs his daughter as he arrived in Kyiv after an exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine on September 7. (Serhii Nuzhnenko, RFE/RL)
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Participants of the first LGBT pride parade in Bosnia-Herzegovina are seen on the streets of Sarajevo on September 8. (Midhat Poturovic, RFE/RL)
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Belarusian long jumper Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova lands at the The Match Europe v USA, an international two-day competition between the United States and Europe in Minsk on September 10. (Uladz Hrydzin, RFE/RL)
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People raise their hands during Ashura celebrations in Baku, Azerbaijan, on September 10.
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A Ukrainian soldier digs a trench near Bohdanovka, in the Donetsk region, on September 26. (Andriy Dubchak, RFE/RL)
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Toma plays in the yard of her house, just a few hundred meters away from frontline positions. In July 2017, when Russia-backed separatists fired mortars into the small Ukrainian town of Maryinka, Toma's stomach was hit by shrapnel from a shell that landed on the doorstep of her family's home. Find out more stories of the children living on Ukraine's front line in Ukraine's Frontline Children by photographer Andriy Dubchak of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service. (Andriy Dubchak, RFE/RL)
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Celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China take place at the Big Stone, a Belarusian-Chinese industrial park in Belarus's Smalyavichy district on October 10. (Uladz Hrydzin, RFE/RL)
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A man walks through saffron fields in Afghanistan's Herat Province on November 17. (Shapoor Saber, RFE/RL)
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Police disperse protesters near the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on November 18. (Mzia Saganelidze, RFE/RL)
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Residential buildings are seen in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, on November 29. (Midhat Poturovic, RFE/RL)
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A man walks out of the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on November 29. (Pyotr Trotsenko, RFE/RL)
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People participate in protests against the integration of Belarus with Russia in Minsk on December 7. (Svaboda.org, RFE/RL)
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A Ukrainian soldier walks through destroyed mines in Butovka in Ukraine's Donetsk region on December 7. (Andriy Dubchak, RFE/RL)
